Simon Edgar

I'm engaging in outstanding discussions with leaders of change in health & care from across the globe at #Quality2024 . A big theme is how relationships & relatedness are increasingly becoming the primary focus of change methodologies. Read this blog from North East and North Cumbria NHS on how a theory

I'm at #Quality2024 live, listening to Amy Edmondson talking about principles from her book “The Right Kind of Wrong – The Science of Failing Well”. Amy differentiates three kinds of failures in organisations:
1) Basic failures: caused by carelessness or ignorance
2) Complex

#Quality2024 Simple rules: a set of simple rules leads to intelligent behaviour in complex systems (Michael Dubakov) 🙌 Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) BMJ Quality & Safety Helen Bevan Göran Henriks

NHS Lothian Medical Education team are looking for talented clinicians to join us in Aug 24 as Fellows. Apply here bit.ly/3QGcb4s and have a look at what we do here 👉🏽 med.scot.nhs.uk #makeadifference NHS Education for Scotland (NES)

Impostor phenomenon (IP) can fuel stress & burnout, plaguing individuals with self-doubt & fear of being exposed as 'frauds.' Find out about IP amongst the healthcare simulation community. ijohs.com/article/doi/10… #ImpostorPhenomenon #impostorsyndrome

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Today WBS & NHS Horizons are hosting the first of two roundtables with NHS leaders on 'how we can define and demonstrate (financial) value from improvement activity in the NHS'. In many NHS organisations, there's a gap between the indicators used to gauge value in

📣 Join us on MS Teams NHS Lothian Leadership Network event for Sept. Jon Antrobus will be sharing his experiences from NASA 🚀 as part of his Fellowship The Scottish Quality and Safety Fellowship. All NHS Lothian staff welcome. Your hosts will be Sara & Susan Sloan Bring 🥙

Our next Leadership Network is one not to be missed! Come join us please on Aug22 at 1230! Hannah Cairns Simon Edgar Susan Sloan Janis Butler💙💛🌻 dawn lehmann 🌟Amanda Langsley 💙 Calum Arthur Kris Aitken

One thing I've learnt over the years is that it's usually a good idea to have a plan for change. The plan gathers people and shows the way. But lasting change is inherently emergent so don’t expect the change to exactly match the plan. The plan needs to be just “good enough” at

Too often when we think about 'organisational design', we rush into drawing new operating models & org charts. Yet there are multiple aspects we should think about first: the ideological, strategic and emotional components of redesign, not just the structural. Here's a brilliant

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A philosophy that's served me well over the years is 'always assume that other people are acting with a positive intent'. That's why Hanlon's Razor is such a useful mental model. It states 'never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by neglect.' Other

Brilliant blog on the importance of measurement & interpreting data to create an ongoing culture of improvement. Four key lessons:
1) Deciding where to make the first intervention in system-wide improvement is a key decision that involves many potential trade-offs
2) Similarly

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An exciting time in infection medicine - joint ID and micro job

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NHS Lothian Peer Mentoring Programme has training webinars coming up ! Sign up to start your mentoring journey.

So pleased we have 100 people signed up to our Basic Needs At Work demo in July & can confirm Dr Jo Daniels will be present. Together, with Jo's Research & my blend of QI we hope to inspire people to focus on basic needs at work Basic Needs at Work 💛🧡
Event details: buff.ly/3NhGVqP

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The official opening of the new and improved Junior Doctors mess at WGH today in Pentland Lodge. Thank you to all who made it happen especially our Chief Registrars and NHS Lothian Medical Education team